Welcome to the AEA 21st Century Teacher Academy! Get started building your PLN (Personal/Professional Learning Network) Don't underestimate your online learning network. Google+, Twitter, Blogs, Pintrest and many other forums are vital to your online learning!Connect with educators through social media/networks like Twitter, Facebook and blogs. see the links below for some of the BEST resources for starting out! Resources for starting out!
Building a PLN--Link to Richard Byrne's blogpost about building a PLN
-One of the BEST educational bloggers/resource guides out there. Tons ofFREEsites and practical explainations about how to use them in your classroom All of his posts contain FREE resources with suggestions for PRACTICAL ways to use them in your class right away!
A MUST read!-- an excellent compilation of advice and tools for being a 21st century teacher!!!
How do educators keep current with the ever changing world of technology? How can Web 2.0 tools be used to communicate and collaborate with peers across the hall and around the world?
Edublogs lets you easily create & manage student & teacher blogs, quickly customize designs and include videos, photos & podcasts - it's safe, easy and secure so try out an Edublog today!
We created Blogger to give you an easy way to share your thoughts — about current events, what's going on in your life, or anything else you'd care to discuss — with the world. We've developed a host of features to make blogging as simple and effective as possible.
An information network--Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to the latest information about what you find interesting. Simply find the public streams you find most compelling and follow the conversations. Twitter allows you to connect and share ideas in real time with educators around the globe!
Delicious is a Social Bookmarking service, which means you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking. It also means that we can show you the most popular bookmarks being saved right now across many areas of interest. In addition, our search and tagging tools help you keep track of your entire bookmark collection and find tasty new bookmarks from people like you.
Pearltrees is a Social Bookmarking service which allows you to build "trees" of knowledge--or links
Pearltrees is a place to collect, organize and share everything you like on the web. You can keep at hand the web pages you like and enrich your account with Pearltrees from other members of the community.
Wikispaces is our attempt to build a wiki that's easy to use and easy to adopt for all kinds of audiences. We've kept the tool simple so that you can focus on building content, talking with other members, and growing your community.
Back channeling
TodaysMeet -gives you an isolated room where you can see only what you need to see in order to have a conversation online. Back channeling allows you to have conversations with everyone else in the room and the presenter in real time.
Interactive White Boards:
Smart Teaching- using the Smart board as an interactive classroom tool
Practice in creating interactive Notebook Lessons
Searching for and using Notebook lessons
Managing Notebook files and content
Interactive/online websites for the use in the classroom:
Quia is pronounced key-ah, and is short for Quintessential Instructional Archive. Quia provides a wide variety of tools, including:
Templates for creating 16 types of online activities, including flashcards, word search, battleship, challenge board, and cloze exercises. Quia activities are designed with different learning styles in mind to suit the needs of all your students.
Complete online testing tools that allow you to create quizzes, grade them with computer assistance, and receive detailed reports on student performance.
Access to over 3 million online activities and quizzes in 300 categories. All of the shared activities have been created by teachers from around the world.
A school-wide network that allows effortless collaboration with your fellow teachers.
An easy, centralized classroom management system including a master student list, archive of student results, and the tools to conduct school-wide proficiency testing.
A class Web page creator that includes a course calendar and an easy way to post your Quia activities for students and parents.
Online surveys for gathering student and teacher feedback.
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Padlet
Padlet is an Internet application that allows people to create and collaborate to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. Create a "WALL" with posts and comments on a subject or for imformation. (formerly Wallwisher)
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holdsimages, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
XtraMath--a nonprofit dedicated to math achievement for all. Supplemental facts practice in all operations. Online and fun!
PowerMyLearning- a national educational nonprofit dedicated to free digital learning activities. Activities are linked to the Common Core State Standards and engaging.
A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holdsimages, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.
A free site that allows you to create avatars that SPEAK. You can customize your avatar, add voice and have students create VOKIs. Fun and easy to use!
Welcome to the AEA 21st Century Teacher Academy!
Get started building your PLN (Personal/Professional Learning Network) Don't underestimate your online learning network. Google+, Twitter, Blogs, Pintrest and many other forums are vital to your online learning!Connect with educators through social media/networks like Twitter, Facebook and blogs. see the links below for some of the BEST resources for starting out!
Resources for starting out!
Building a PLN--Link to Richard Byrne's blogpost about building a PLN
Building Your PLN- Edublog Teacher Challenge
Connect with Educational Bloggers/Social Media Groups:
Free Technology for Teachers-Richard Byrne
-One of the BEST educational bloggers/resource guides out there. Tons of FREE sites and practical explainations about how to use them in your classroom All of his posts contain FREE resources with suggestions for PRACTICAL ways to use them in your class right away!
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites
Excellent resources for all,but especially ELL and ESL -Larry is know as the ELL guru. Many lists of resources, nicely organized!
Classroom 2.0
A social network for those interested in Web 2.0, Social Media, and Participative Technologies in the classroom.Technology Enhanced Learning Blog-
A individual edublog award winnng site.
Connect with educators on Twitter
Attend conferences/unconferences
Books/ebooks
- The SUPER Book of Web Tools For Educators-
A MUST read!-- an excellent compilation of advice and tools for being a 21st century teacher!!!How do educators keep current with the ever changing world of technology? How can Web 2.0 tools be used to communicate and collaborate with peers across the hall and around the world?
Great sites to help you get started!
Blogging/microblogging
and include videos, photos & podcasts - it's safe, easy and secure so try out an Edublog today!
Bookmarking
Wikis
Back channeling
Interactive White Boards:
Quia
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